noun · feminine
apothesias
Strong’sG595
a putting off, a laying down
stem apothesi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἀπό-θεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀποτίθημι),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G595 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-oth'-es-is
a laying aside (literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G659;
King Jamesputting away (off).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἀποτίθημι) laying up in store, σκευῶνRefs; εἰς ἀ. γενέσθαι to be stored up, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἀ. τῆς τροφῆς, of bees,Refs; preserving, of fish, Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 the final movement in setting a dislocated or fractured limb, Refs 2nd c.AD+in Hp.Fract.Refs C.; falsa lectio in Refs 5th c.BC+
3 κατ᾽ ἀπόθεσιν, of internal abscesses, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II putting aside, making away with, getting rid of, ῥύπουNT
II.2 exposure of children, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 resignation of an office, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 ἀ. κώλου, περιόδου, close or cadence of a phrase, Refs 5th c.BC+; so in metres, ={κατάληξις}, Refs 7th c.AD+
III ={ἀποδυτήριον}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apothesias2×ἀπόθεσις | apothesiais |
| object accusative | apothesian | apothesiain |
| direct address vocative | apothesiar | apothesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apothesiau | apothesiaiu |
| to, for dative | apothesia | apothesiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apothesia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
apothesias“removal”subjectnominative singular2×
1 Peter 3:21… antitupem nun sōzatō baptismem, ouk sarkau apothesias rupou alla suneidēsiau agathau eperōtēmem eis …… now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body, but …
2 Peter 1:14“lay aside”horarēntos hoti tachinas atō tas apothesias teu skēnōmeu mu, kathōs kai tos …because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord …